Keuffel & Esser Company Fellowship in Surveying and Cartography,
1978.

Dissertation Fellowship - University of Kansas, 1978-1979.

American Congress on Surveying and Mapping - Andrew McNally Award
for Research in Cartography, 1983. For the article Map Complexity:
Comparison and Measurement, The American Cartographer, 9, 1, 1982,
pp. 31-46.

American Congress on Surveying and Mapping - Andrew McNally Award
for Research in Cartography, 1988. For the article Sampling
and isometric mapping of continuous geographic surfaces (with John V.
Davidson) The American Cartographer, 14(4):299-320 (1987).

Faculty Research Fund Grant for Locational and Attribute Components of
Regional Images, Penn
State , 1985.

Research Initiation Grant from the College
of Earth
and Mineral Sciences for Geographic Knowledge Acquisition and Spatial
Problem Solving: Conceptualization of Regions and the Role of Maps, Penn State , 1986.

Faculty Research Fund Grant for Strategies for Presenting Map Information
with Computers: The Influence of Orientation Bias in Cognitive Maps,
Penn State
, 1987.

Faculty Research Fund Grant for The Influence of Map Orientation on Spatial
Knowledge Acquisition from Maps, Penn State , 1988.

Thomas, James J and Cook, Kristin A., eds. Illuminating the Path:
The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics (one of 26
authors), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Department of Homeland
Security, 2005.